stories of radical feminism
past, present, future
Keepers of the Womb
Hey, It has taken me months to pen this down—a letter I suppose I’m writing to you, to me, to her. I remember reading Chughtai’s
Recording Resistance: How Domestic Workers Use TikTok to Challenge Precarity in the Gulf
The machinery of our global capitalist economy is designed to exploit caregiving and domestic labor, while erasing the humanity of those who perform it. In
Friendship and the Kitchen; Three Women and their Quest for Space
Seeing my mother hate the kitchen and my aunt love it, I was very confused. Growing up, I couldn’t decide if liking it would betray
Press(ing)work: The Labor Economics of Feminist Small Press Publishing in the Philippines
Gantala Press, a Filipino women’s press that I founded while employed in a private library, celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2025. I reflect here on
In Begumpura, their bodies shall find rest.
For an audio-visual project on outward migration from Bihar, I was speaking to professor Brahma Prakash, a writer and Professor at JNU, over a Zoom
Boiling Water: for Tea and The Enemy
For the longest of times, women are portrayed… No. Not even portrayed. Simply, “Women belong to the kitchen,” they say—a phrase that can be traced
Hands That Hold a Marketplace
The marketplace is not merely a place of trade; it is a realm of labor, endurance, and negotiation: a living organism held together by the
Found but Lost in the Labyrinth of Butter
Asako Yuzuki’s Butter lures readers in with its hypnotic bright yellow cover, much like margarine. The blurb reads like a mystery thriller where one might
“There She Goes,” Reviewing The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
A handbook is an assortment of guidelines or instructions on a specific topic. But a handbook on killing joy? Who exactly is a killjoy, and
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Writing Women is a seed bank. Every story of radical feminism from our past and present is a seed that powers our imagination for the future. We seek to fill these pages with seeds of writings, oral tales, songs, poems and art that reveal resistance, sisterhood and decolonizing solidarity across borders of landscape and language from Palestine to Turtle Island, the Congo to Kashmir.
“There She Goes,” Reviewing The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
A handbook is an assortment of guidelines or instructions on a specific topic. But a handbook on killing joy? Who exactly is a killjoy, and why do we need a
The Many Lives of Syeda X: Whose Story Is It Anyway?
The aromas of different spices and herbs engulfed all my senses the moment we stepped foot in the area. We were at the Khari Baoli market as a part of
Transnational Truth-Telling as Sanity
Two books, this week, have kept me sane. One is Michelle Good’s collection of seven essays about Indigenous life in Canada aptly titled ‘Truth Telling,’ and the other is Isabella
